Mark Brewer

I'm not saying you can't generate a hypothesis from data.

I'm just saying that generating a hypothesis from the entirety of human knowledge that preceded your data is a much safer bet.

Our Iain McKendrick is at the Royal Highland Show 2025 to launch a new public information film. It warns about the risks from bringing animal and plant products into Scotland. 🧀🥩✈️

🎦Watch here: www.epicscotland.org/resources/an...

@epicscotland.bsky.social @planthealthscot.bsky.social @hutton.ac.uk

The latest Household Costs Indices (HCIs) are out: www.ons.gov.uk/economy/infl...

March HCI inflation: 2.6% (same as CPI)

But the detail matters:
Non-retired: 2.8%
Retired: 2.1%
Renters: 3.6%
Owners: 1.8%

📑Read more in our policy briefing
rss.org.uk/RSS/media/Fi...

Ecologists’ endless quest for automatic inference
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/05/28/e...

Congratulations to joint @srucnews.bsky.social / @bioss.bsky.social PhD student Claire Stainfield and senior statistician Dr. Thomas Cornulier who both delivered amazing talks at last week's 2025 Pint of Science UK festival in Aberdeen! #pint25 #scicomm #pintofscience #bioss #sruc

Scotland's National LIDAR scan underway! @RESAS funded

🚨WEBINAR🚨
The #PrePAREDProject will host a webinar on 21st May from 12-12:30pm.

This webinar summarises the findings from Report 006: ‘Similarity assessment of offshore wind farms within UK marine habitats’ and will host a live Q&A.

Register here: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/eae7d8...

Check out this exciting new BioSS paper! 📣🐑

#animalhealth #parasitology #sheep #newpaper

Welcome to BioSS, Grant, we're delighted to see you here too!

I've never experienced anything like this in my life, where people keep telling me that "we have to use AI or else we'll be left behind" but they don't actually tell me exactly what problem they are hoping to solve with the "AI" or how we would know it was useful. But we must use it! Apparently.

Of course, "data collection" could include making use of existing data sets, so making sure existing data are made freely available, with appropriate publicity, is part of that.

Finding a problem for your data is just like finding data for your methodology. All parts of the scientific process - problem formulation, data design and collection, analysis and inference, conclusions and dissemination - should be done by a collaborative team, working together from the outset.

Yet ANOTHER right-wing populist finds themselves on the wrong side of the law.

Contrarian grifters: "The global system is conspiring to prevent these people from taking up their rightful place as the leaders of nations.

Everyone else: No, far-right populism just tends to attract criminals.

To be held in Lübeck, Germany on 24-26/9/2025 (virtual attendance possible). Further details at www.biometrische-gesellschaft.de/arbeitsgrupp... (2/2)

News of a meeting free for members of the International Biometric Society: Probabilistic risk analysis and Bayesian decision theory, for an overview of the theory of Bayesian risk-based decision theory with application in epidemiology and environmental sciences (e.g. forestry). (1/2)

València International Bayesian Analysis Summer School, 8th edition This is the webpage of the VAlencia BAyesian Research group (VABAR). Based at the University of Valencia and heir of prominent Bayesians like Susie Bayarri and Juan Ferrándiz.

València International Bayesian Summer School (VIBASS 8)
7-10 July 2025
vabar.es/events/vibas...

Includes a basic course on Bayesian learning (12 hours) and the special topic is on Bayesian modelling with brms.

BBC complains to Apple over misleading shooting headline Apple's new artificial intelligence features falsely made it seem the BBC reported Luigi Mangione had shot himself.

As I said -- only a matter of time before news orgs lashed out at Apple's lackluster (and evidently dangerously wrong) AI summaries of their work. This is shambolic and the BBC has every right to be furious about it.

Another exciting trip into London today for the International Biometric Society British and Irish Region AGM which will be the start of my two-year term as President!

Presenter onstage speaking to audience

Fascinating insights from our @kateywhyte.bsky.social
& Esther Jones on their SEFARI nnovative Knowledge Exchange funded project “Careers and skills for a future climate”, joint work with @jameshuttoninst.bsky.social
@skillsdevscot.bsky.social #ClimateXChange #BerthaPH #CREW_waters #rowett_abdn

We're delighted to welcome everyone to our annual meeting in Edinburgh today. Our Helen Kettle introduced us all to a themed session on "Mathematical Modelling".

Standing man speaking to the audience in front of a slide describing BioSS work

Very grateful that our Head of Consultancy Professor Iain McKendrick was given the chance to tell our #BayesCentre
partners more about the work of BioSS yesterday as part of ⚡#BayesLightningTalks⚡

Statistical Consultancy – The Art of the Science (and 2024 AGM) An afternoon celebrating Statistical Consultancy, including the 2024 BIR Presidential Address and preceded by the 2024 Region AGM.

Join us for an afternoon celebrating Statistical Consultancy - after all, statistical methods are meant to be applied! And application is not always easy...

This event is also the AGM of the British and Irish Region of the International Biometric Society:

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/statistica...

🚨#PhD opportunity!🚨

We are looking for a PhD student to work on modelling West Nile Virus in the UK, working with our @daveewing.bsky.social, and supervisors at @ukceh.bsky.social & Lancaster Uni.

📆Deadline: 6th January

Info: www.bioss.ac.uk/vacancies/hi...
To apply: www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate...

Our own @altealorenzo.bsky.social will be talking about the work of the "Celebrating Diversity" RSS group that she chairs as part of the @royalstatsoc.bsky.social #MembersWeek Showcase: Statistics for the Public Good.
📅Tomorrow 15th November 2024
⏰1.00- 2.30PM
Register: ⬇
rss.org.uk/news-publica...

Our David Ewing and @altealorenzo.bsky.social have been working hard at the ICMS follow-up #RewildingMaths workshop at the London Mathematical Society.
Great discussions and paper writing! ✍️

That's a lot of logistic regressions.

📢Less than 1 week to go until the closing date for this opportunity to join our animal and plant health teams!

This is a permanent position based in Edinburgh.

Apply now! ✍️
www.bioss.ac.uk/vacancies/st...
#StatsJobs #MathsJobs #ResearchJobs #AcademicJobs

Ah yes, the greatest data-analysis time saver of them all:

Not giving a shit about whether you've done it correctly

🚨TWO NEW VACANCIES!🚨

We are recruiting for two positions in mathematical modelling and statistical inference. Both are permanent roles based in #Edinburgh.

📅Deadline: 25th Nov
-Position 1: bioss.ac.uk/vacancies/re...
-Position 2: bioss.ac.uk/vacancies/re...
#statistics #maths #statsjobs #research

We are recruiting for several positions at the moment, across a range of career stages and areas of research. All are permanent positions.

📖Check out our vacancy pages to learn more: www.bioss.ac.uk/vacancies

#StatsJobs #AcademicJobs #MathsJobs #ResearchJobs